Roles of highly expressed bone-specific genes in bone metastatic prostate cancer PC3 cells: Advances in studies.
- Author:
Shi-Yi ZHOU
1
;
Dong WANG
1
;
Ji-Chun SHAO
1
;
Yao-Dong YOU
1
Author Information
1. Department of Urology, 416 Hospital of Nuclear Industry, College of Basic Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu 611137, China.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
bone-specific genes;
prostate cancer;
bone metastasis
- MeSH:
Humans;
Male;
PC-3 Cells;
Prostatic Neoplasms/genetics*;
Tumor Microenvironment
- From:
National Journal of Andrology
2021;27(10):927-933
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a maligmancy with high morbidity and mortality. Bone metastasis is the main cause of short survival time and difficulties in the treatment and prevention of PCa. Previous findings of our team showed 155 bone-specific genes highly expressed in bone metastatic PC3 cells, which is considered to be the key to their adaptation to the bone micro-environment, proliferation and formation of metastatic tumor, and extensively exists in cancer metastasis in multiple systems. This review summarizes the published literature on the highly expressed bone-specific genes, focusing on the roles and values of these genes in the metastasis, progression, clinical diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of PCa, offering a prospect of the direction and targets in the studies of PCa bone metastasis so as to enrich the bone metastatic theories and clinical treatment principles of this disease in the future.
